The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-11-09
THE GOVERNMENT.

was the theme for all of their insane
harranguss. They did not like the Govern
ment. Mr.. Henry George, is equally con-
6dent that the Government of the United
States is a failure. Old John Brown, the
Republican canonized thief and murderer,
bandit and vsgabond, believed the Govern
ment was q failure; and the RepUbli-
can party, which had its origin
where crsnks howied that our starry en-
sign was q Haunting lie," and our
Constitution 50 league with hell and
covenant with death" believed
the Government q faiure-and now comes
John James Ingalls,, United States SEN
stor representing Kansas, and he too be-
ieves the Government of the United
States a failure. In the Forum for Sep
TENDER, Mr.. Ingalls,, a Republican of the
John Brown. Guiteau, "hauuting lie" and
League with hell type, contributes a
paper on the Sixteenth Amendment"
which enables him to strike right and left
against the Government. Ingalls, has no
conception Of any government except that
of force. 0stensibly, the purpose of In
CALLS paper is to show that women have
no right to the ballot land here, it may be
well to say, that women suffragists, to
man believe the Government is a failure)
but he declares that no man has natural
right to the ballot. he says: 1.-THE
dogma that suffrage is a natural right has
no support either in reason or experience"
He says: Suffrage is privilege conferred
by the state" he admits that such de
cision is necessarily arbitrary and not sus-
ceptible of accurate definition" 1t should
be understood that John James Ingalls, is
q representative Republican, that he voices
the sentiments of the Republican party
that he is one of the foremost men of the
party. He says no American citizen has
"a natural right to suffrage, to the ballot
that ii isa privilege conferred by the
state. In this he honestly repre-
sents the Republican party. He brings into
bold prominence the central idea OF Re-
publicanism-wbich is aristocracy, exclu-
siveness, centralized power in the hands
of the few, the rich, the monopolist, the
millionaire. Ingalls, fsvors caste. He
right to vote; he would enthrone the dog
ma Of ''divine right to rule" aud in
every State where the Republican party
has had the power, it has aimed the most
deadly blows at the natural right OF
American citizens to vote. This represen-
tative Republican referring to Thomas
jefferson, says: HE had no conception
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strength, duration and grandeur" Mr..
Ingalls, assails the Declaration of Indepen-
dence like an anarchist-no thug, blud-tub
or assassin could be more violent or viru-
lent. He says. 1.-THE doctrine that just gov
ernments derive their powers from the
consent of the governed, in the Jeffersoni-
an phraseologv, is al imperfect statement
of fact" In saying this, he assails the sub
lime declaration of Abraham Lincoln,
which is but another form OF expressing
the Jeffersonian idea, that ours, is a gov
eminent OF the people. ingalls, declares
the Republican idea of government, the
despot's idea the world over, that "all gov
ernments, the inst and the unjust, rest,
not upon consent, but upon
force" as ingalls, puts it, upon 1.-THE beak,
the talon, and the thunderbolt." ingalls,
takes no stock in the declaration that ''ail
men are born equal" Ingalls, Is disciple
| of Bob IngersolI and scouts Peters declar-
| alton that God is no respecter of per-
sons" Ingalls, asserts that "there is no
logic in politics, except the logic oil
events" Hence, what happens is logical
according to reason-and therefore any
government, THAT of the Car for instance,
or that forced upon Ireland by the English
Parliament) Is logical, reasonable, and
ought TO be accepted.
The ingalls, idea, and it is the Repub
liesn idea, is that suffrage is the supreme
danger of The Government. And it is just
here that he thinks the danger line has
already been reached. de sees in immi
grafton only disaster, and he comes to the
rescue of the Know-nothing element by 9
Wild howl of dismay. He estimates the
number of immigrants annually at 500. 900
and refers to them as "paupers, crimi
nails fugitives, malcontents, outlaws, con
Meeting links between the savage and thu
ne UthSty the IeCulcuCc VI IA
lions, the sediment and exuviae OF human
ity." He characterizes these immigrant
Is 1.-The emissaries of Anarchy, the re-en
iorcemenis for the brutal army OF ruin
whose war-cry ia the destruction of or
sanized Government and social order
whose weapons are the torch and tn
bomb" Such is the Republican estim at
of immigrants to the United States. I'm
migrants who want to know the estimst
the Republican party place upon them
have only 10 read ingalls, and other dis
iiDguished Republican writers and orators
and be satisfied that the estimate is. tha
they are the connecting links betweel
the savage and the beast
Take a survey of the field, gathe
up into one great pile, all the crimes eve
Eerpetrated by immigrants to our shore:
make the exhibition as hideous and as re
pulsive as facts may warrant, and the
invite the nations of the earth to contem
plate the mass. In constructing this pyrs
mid of crime we would have the architect